Obama's nice guy' policy is coming back to haunt America

Teddy Roosevelt said “speak softly and carry a big stick.” President Obama’s foreign policy, like Jimmy Carter’s, is “speak softly and carry a fly swatter,” the fatuous “if we’re nice to them they’ll be nice to us.” And apologize for being American. Obama’s foreign policy ... if it can be called that ... is not only incompetent and weak, it’s criminally negligent.

Three days before the deadly assault on the United States consulate in Libya, a local security official says he met with American diplomats in the city and warned them about deteriorating security. Marine guards at our overseas embassies and consulates carry rifles but no bullets, so as not to offend the host countries. Our troops in Afghanistan, where the very “allies” they are attempting to train to resist a Taliban or al-Qaida takeover of their country, regularly murder them, are being given Islamic “sensitivity training.” (Never give to or receive from a Muslim anything with the “unclean” left hand, or show him the sole of your shoe, etc.) This is a continuation of Bill “I loathe the military” Clinton’s campaign to turn our armed forces, who are trained to kill our enemies and break their things, into a uniformed Meals on Wheels group.

On Hillary Clinton’s becoming secretary of state (the same Hillary who disallowed Marine guards in the White House to ever appear in her presence), Bush’s War on Terror was renamed Global Contingency Operation. Terrorist acts are “Man Caused Disasters.” The president referred to Iran, now close to going nuclear, as a small country that poses no threat, and refuses to condemn, or even speak of, Muslim extremism; on the contrary, he regularly praises Islam. In June 2009 he said it “has a proud tradition of tolerance,” while women in many Muslim countries are still treated as little better than domestic animals, and even stoned to death for religious infractions. He invites to the White House members of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose motto includes: “Dying in the way of Allah our highest hope.”

What has this “nice guy” policy earned us? Contempt and scorn. The Islamic world attacking U.S. embassies from Tunis in the west to Asia in the east, tearing down the American flag and hoisting the black al-Qaida one, and our ambassador and three other Americans murdered in Libya. Does the president rush back to Washington to take charge? No, he goes to Las Vegas to continue his election campaign. He can’t meet with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of our staunchest ally in the Middle East, but does have time to appear on the David Letterman show and with Jay-Z and Beyoncé.

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Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan, who said “It’s nice to be liked; it’s better to be respected.” Mitt Romney feels the same way, and hopefully will replace Obama in November.